Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-09-21
WHY DIR. DANIELS WAS STABBED.
Another Cause Assigned for the Assault
Upon Him.
MR.. LAIRD SAYS THE DOCTOR HAD MADE IMPROPER
PROPOSALS TO HIS NAIRDs) FOURTEEN-YEAR-oLD
DAUGHTER.

Mr.. Andrew j. Laird, the clerk in the Adjutant
Generals Office, who stabbed and painfully
wounded DR.. q. T. Daniels at the Surgeon-Gene-
rals Office yesterday afternoon, as published in
The STAR, was detained at the first precinct sta
tion last night, having failed to procure bail Last
night Mrs. DR.. Bird, friend OF the Laird family,
visited the station and told Lieut.. Amiss what
caused the trouble. She said that about three
weeks ago the fourteen-year-old daughter Of Mr..
Laird told her that she met the doctor on the
street and he walked home with her. He pro-
posed to her that she retire with the family that
night as usual, and after her parents were asleep
that She come down stairs in her stocking feet,
Ing to Mrs Birds story, the child refused and
told her sister OF what had passed between them.
She was afraid to tell her parents at that time,
latter did not tell her husband, because She was
afraid 1t would excite him and cause some trouble.
The matter worried her, however, SO that Monday
night she Informed her husband. That night he
did not close his eyes and raved like maniac, and
yesterday afternoon the assault occurred.
Mr.. LAIRD'a STATEMENT.
This morning MI. Laird was escorted to the Po-
lice Court by an or1cer When STAR reporter
called his attentien AN article In morning
paper which intfmated THAT the wounded doctor
had seduced his Haird's daughter, he Indignantly
denied the truth OF the publication. He said that
the doctor had made proposal to his daughter,
which she afterward communicated to her mother,
months ago, he said, his daughter met the doctor
on 14th street and they visited confectionery
store, where they had ice cream. They left the
store, and while walking along 14th street he put
his arm around her several times and she pushed
him from her. When they arrived near his house
the doctor proposed that she retire with the family
at the usual time, and that later In the night she
come down stairs and meet him at the basement
door, where he would be waiting for her. She did
not meet him. but Informed the family OF what had
occurred, as stated above Mr.. Laird added that
he and the doctor were raised together in the
same town, Eufala, Ala, and that he had always
considered him warm friend OF the family. The
doctor also married his Gaird's) cousin, and lived
with his wife and child at No. 1857 14th street.
DOCTOR DANIEL DENIES.
A STAR reporter this morning called at the resi-
dence OF DR.. 2. T. Daniel at 145T 14th street, and
found the doctor in bed. There was a bandage
over one eye and he said that knife had struck
ing the upper portion OF the nose. He said that
Laird struck him in the region of the heart, but
the Knife blade only penetrated his clothing. He
remain quiet for several days. but he thought that
he was getting along very well and would be up in
s few days His wife was present and listened to
regard to the published statements that the cause
OF the shooting was the seduction, or attempted
seduction, Of Mr.. Lairds young daughter, he said:
1.-The entire statement Is made out Of whole CLOTH
1t Is uuquallhedly false. l never seduced his
daughter, never rode with her in car
riage, and never attempted to seduce her.
never made any indecent proposition to her of
any kind. never seduced any woman, and have
nothing to do with women. My hands are per-
lectly clean IN this respect"
He then went on to say that he had known Laird
al his lle They were boys together. When
Laird came here, about six years ago, he did what
he could to assist him. and did give him material
aid. He had been the medical attendant of Iairds
family since the latters residence in this city and
had visited the family in that capacity. Last
W1nter, tOgeLher with Mr.. Clark, clerk In the
AdJutant Generals once where Laird was EN-
ployed ne mad endorsed note OF Laird's for $1O0.
The note became due, was protested and renewed,
pay It: He had only paid SO on 1t a few weeks
ago. Then Clark concluded that the best thing to
90 was to make complaint to the Secretary OF
KIND to be agne ae tod paper psarS Sf whats Ina
he was going to do. Laird said II he did
clark said that he was ready then to meet any
consequences. Laird told him that he did not
mean me nim put Daniel and that II the latter signed
The doctor said that he did not sign the paper.
A short time ago they found that Laird had gone
10 sne eT ana mace to the
proposed some time before to Laird to make some
arrangement TO pay the debt gradually, but Laird
sIat arS was an insult to him.
the War Department. This was the Situation
when the assault was made. The doctor said that
he knew OF no other cause for the assault than
that Laird felt vindictive and that he was man
OF rather com0ative and violent disposition.
LAIRD HELD 10 BAIL IN $500.
This morning, in the Police Court, Mr. Laird was
charged with assault and battery with iutent te
kill MI. Darlington appeared for him, and fur
nished bail In the sum OF $500. The case was con-
tinued until Thursday OF next week, when the
charge win, perhaps be reduced to one OF simple
assault as Judge Smell held in the case OF Mat.
thewA who stabbed Forsberg, that pocket-knife
was not q deadly weapon, and dismissed the
charge OF assault with intent to KIN ON thai
ground.
DROWNED WHnR Observation-Disclosures Van Am
r1nge, son OF Prof. ]. H. van AmrinRe OF Columbia
College, New York, was drowned In the creek al
Washlngt0nville Monday afternoon. On Friday
young van Amr1nge, in company with his brother
Guy ana MI: McCloud, q student at Columbia
we went S 70 wasn1ngtonvilie to spend few weeks a
company with McCloud, strolled down the creel
to place below the residence OF Charles Nicon
where tney went In bathing. McCloud soon saw